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Fast forward twenty, maybe thirty years. The European Union has progressed from a hands-off association of neighbouring countries to a fully-fledged United States of Europe. The system of government is a mélange of the US and German models with the old nation states retaining control over essentially regional matters including all the social services. A central administration, the real power centre, watched over by the European Parliament is based in ……… Weil, where is it based?
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Turner, B. (1999). A Capital for Europe. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2000. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271289_11
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